Abstract:A pointed quasigroup is said to be semicentral if it is principally isotopic to a group via a permutation on one side and a group automorphism on the other. Convex combinations of permutation matrices given by the one-sided multiplications in a semicentral quasigroup then yield doubly stochastic transition matrices of finite Markov chains in which the entropic behaviour at any time is independent of the initial state.
Keywords: quasigroup, Latin square, Markov chain, doubly stochastic matrix, ergodic, superergodic, dripping faucet, group isotope, central quasigroup, semicentral quasigroup, $T$-quasigroup, left linear quasigroup
AMS Subject Classification: 20N05, 60J10